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Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5. ConclusionsPreparation, implementation, and the preliminary assessments of the workbook strategy forvarious chemical engineering courses are presented. The workbook strategy incorporates thefollowing in teaching: (i) classroom analysis, (ii) workbook beside the textbook, (iii) group work,and (iv) ‘blackboard’ as information technology aided platform in education and communication.The preliminary assessments show that the strategy may reduce the mismatches betweenteachings and learning styles, facilitate greater interactions between students and instructors, andstimulate critical thinking, problem solving, and active

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BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Harris; David Cordray

Impact of Assessment on a BME Undergraduate Program Thomas R. Harris, David Cordray Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235IntroductionLearning theory suggests that effective instruction should be “student centered, knowledgecentered, assessment centered, and community centered”1. We have been engaged in a largestudy aimed at exploring and testing these concepts for biomedical engineering education—theNSF Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center onBioengineering Educational Technologies. The set of concepts that have been applied toimprove learning have been labeled the “How People Learn (HPL) Framework”2. This paper isan

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gustavo Molina; George Clark; Aniruddha Mitra

Session 3565 Effects of Variable Mix on Student Mathematics Performance George Clark, Aniruddha Mitra, and Gustavo Molina Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractEngineering and Engineering Technology students encounter a wide variety of variables in theircoursework. To prepare for courses in their specific majors, these students usually take a commoncore of mathematics classes, which are typically taught using x and y. The authors wished todetermine whether students’ mathematical performance using other variables was on a par with theirability to manipulate x and y. A ten problem quiz was

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

the world in which our future army officerswill be leading soldiers’ demands that each graduate of the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point be a disciplined problem solver who has internalized theengineering thought process. In fact, Engineering and Technology is the first of sixdomains of knowledge listed under the Academy’s Academic Program Goals (Page 6 –Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World1). As such, every future “armyleader” at West Point must take an engineering sequence, or “track,” as part of theiracademic program regardless of major or field of study.The Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering offers two of the six availableengineering sequences at the Academy: civil and mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

graduate students from their respective institutions’ business schools. The RICPE hadidentified a need for students with a technological background to participate with thosecompanies with a significant technological or engineering focus to their business.This opportunity for greater collaboration with the local business community was very timely.Over the past two years, the administration and faculty of the SECCM had been working totransition the senior engineering capstone design course to a “client-based” format. Under a Page 9.568.1“client-based” scenario, all of the projects offered to student teams for their capstone projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Lewinski; William Hudson

variety of simple, non-threatening situations. Hisrequest of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology was to createa system that could display certain visual patterns on a Stimulus Box and record an individual’sresponse time to that visual stimulus by measuring the trigger pull on a training pistol. Toaccomplish this Dr. Hudson enlisted the assistance of two Electrical and Computer Engineeringgraduate students, Darwin S. David and Ross Loven.The Graduate StudentsThe graduate students were completing their second semester of their Master’s Degree study.Both students had completed their Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at MinnesotaState University, Mankato in the previous year. The students had both completed

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Stewart; David Elrod

Session Number 1338 Assessing Student Work in Engineering Graphics and Visualization Course David Elrod, Michael D. Stewart School of Civil and Environmental Engineering/George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GeorgiaAbstractAdvances in computer technology have led to significant changes in the content of the freshmanengineering graphics course. Course topics, textbooks, and software choices differ from oneinstitution to another, depending in part on the programs of study the

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • “Prepare students for a broad range of careers and lifelong learning … feature multidisciplinary, collaborative, active learning and take into account students’ varied learning styles,” 1 • “Include early exposure to ‘real’ engineering and more extensive exposure to interdisciplinary, hands-on, industrial practice aspects, team work, systems thinking and creative design” 2, and • “Create an intellectual environment where students can develop an awareness of the impact of emerging technologies, an appreciation of engineering as an integral process of societal change, and an acceptance of responsibility for civilization’s progress.” 3More

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

Session 2542 Making the Link between Engineering Management and Undergraduate Research David F. Radcliffe and Josh Humphries Catalyst Centre for Society and Technology The University of Queensland AustraliaAbstractThis paper describes and analyses an innovative engineering management course that applies aproject management framework in the context of a feasibility study for a prospective researchproject. The aim is to have students learn aspects of management that will be relevant

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

full or part-time undergraduates. Moreover, over half of these studentstraditionally study in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, or France. Domestic college students’lack of cultural exposure is a serious liability in today’s climate of growing globalizationof business and technology; this problem is especially acute in engineering, whichaccounts for only 3% of all U.S. students who study abroad.1 In response to this problem,we present an innovative model of international engineering education that is novel indesign, large in scope (seventy-five students expected for Summer 2004), and non-traditional in location.There are numerous impediments to the successful creation of accessible, affordable,safe, and intellectually challenging study-abroad

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

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Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

2221 Developing a European Master in Construction IT E. Dado1, R. Beheshti21) Assistant Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Designand Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands.E-mail address: e.dado@ct.tudelft.nl / 2) Associate Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences, Design and Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1,2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail address: r.beheshti@ct.tudelft.nl1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

the newly framedvision for technological literacy presented in Technically Speaking, Why all American Should beTechnologically Literate2, and the International Technology Education Association (ITEA)standards3, lead to the newest Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks4.Also as part of the education reform act, the state of Massachusetts has implemented a highstakes testing system throughout its pre-college educational system to test student knowledge invarious areas of the state set curriculum frameworks. These tests are known as theMassachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS.) The science andtechnology/engineering exam is currently given to students in grades five and eight, and a tenthgrade exam in technology

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

the AIM for Engineering project include a professional development programfor secondary algebra and calculus teachers, development of an online database of resources,high school outreach through school and campus visits, support for first year women andminority engineering students, and ongoing evaluation. Targeting eleven Austin public schoolswith high populations of under-represented students, the project combines the efforts of theCollege’s Faculty Innovation Center, Information Technology Group, Equal Opportunity inEngineering, and Women in Engineering Program.This paper explores the challenges we have faced and provide advice on avoiding potentialpitfalls. Some of the issues we examine include: ‚ Working with local schools

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

and faculty at CSM, resulting in theplanning of a second minor degree in Humanitarian Studies and Technology, which would servestudents in applied science and economics. In this paper, we present some of the problems andissues associated with this multidisciplinary endeavor, involving engineering, the sciences andthe humanities.1. IntroductionThe 21st century has brought Americans a new awareness of anguish and discontent in lowerincome countries, and an emerging recognition of the need for U.S. participation to amelioratethis suffering. Attendant with these issues is the demand for enhanced security, safety, andequity for the disadvantaged. At the same time, engineering graduates shy away from politicallife, community service, and

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

development.In addition DtM looks for opportunities in the area of “intermediate technology,” findingsolutions that bridge the gap between the kinds of computerized, mechanized products availablein industrialized countries and the basic technology found in rural regions of developingcountries. Similarly, conservation of natural resources is a goal of all DtM projects. DtMspecifically targets design challenges that assist communities to exploit local resources in asustainable fashion.2.2. DtM Design Challenge PortfoliosDtM packages problems identified by our clients into curriculum materials called DesignChallenge Portfolios for university students in engineering, science, policy and business to workon in their courses. We transfer the resulting student

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

available, the time allowed, etc. Yet,what professors typically teach students is information, not knowledge, since it is only gleanedfrom the available information and thus, in one sense, is restricted to old problems. With the cy-bernetic revolution, however, most of the problems to be solved by working engineers will benovel problems, often created by new technology. Certainly, professors created knowledge pre-viously in their mind, yet they did not transmit to the students the insights and judgment proc-esses producing the knowledge about why the selected information was actually included in thecourse, and the reasons that other information was excluded. Useful insights on how experts(professors) differ from novices (students) enhances this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

. Some are satellite operations of large, well known corporations. Many are small,locally owned, specialty manufacturers. Examples of this group include boat manufacturers andtheir related suppliers. In spite of their different character, these manufacturing operations face acommon challenge, unique to this region. Since they function in a highly competitive, globalenvironment, it is essential to maintain a dynamic approach to adoption and implementation ofstate of the art technologies and methods. Their ability to compete in technology is in large partdependent on site specific engineering talent. In employing the needed technical talent, theseplants must control overhead costs and cannot support large engineering staffs with a range

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Christy

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexpertise. Multidisciplinary approaches can provide the synergy and spark the creativityrequired to develop workable solutions to the increasingly complex problems of today’s society.Students and faculty must learn to understand and respect their colleagues who study otherdisciplines, and value the contribution those studies may have on their own work.The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) affirmed the value of severalRenaissance traits by including in their EC 2000 criterion 3 the following:1 (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (f) an understanding of professional and ethical

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

at Doctoral/Research Extensive (64%) and the remainder is employed atMaster’s Colleges Level I and Schools of Engineering and Technology. Similarly, the vastmajority of CAREER recipients are at Doctoral/Research Extensive institutions (84%) and to amuch lesser extent at Research Intensive (9%) or Master’s Level I (4%) institutions. Table III. Current academic employment as a function of Carnegie classification. Visit Visit Assoc Asst Adj Prof Res Grad Group Prof Asst Assoc Lecturer Total

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jason Gu

1532 Active Teaching and Lear ning Ver sus Tr aditional Lectur ing in Electr ical and Computer Engineer ing Cour ses J ason J . Gu Depar tment of Electr ical and Computer Engineer ing Dalhousie Univer sity Halifax NS, B3J 2X4, CanadaAbstract –Colleges and universities are developing all kinds of innovative instructional technologies into thevarious aspects of their teaching environment. Sometimes, it is hard to distinguish the effectiveness of theseinnovative technologies from traditional ones

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

Teaching Science Concepts using LITEE Case Studies Shiva K. Sankar, Northwestern University Chetan S. Sankar, Department of Management P.K. Raju, Department of Mechanical Engineering Auburn UniversityProject Goals The NSF, in its Shaping the Future document (NSF, 1996), declared that improvedscience, mathematics, engineering, and technology education is central to shaping America'sfuture. They expect that it will be increasingly necessary that citizens have a substantialunderstanding of the methods and content of science and technology and some understanding oftheir potential and limitations, as well as their

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

engineering and engineering technology. Thestudent chapter has maintained an active presence in the College of Engineering community andhas matured into one of the most active ASEE student chapters in the nation1. The studentchapter at UM provides a variety of services to achieve its three primary missions: – prepare graduate students in their pursuits of careers in academia – inform undergraduate students about graduate education and prepare them in their pursuits of graduate school – support the involvement of underrepresented minorities in higher education2.Through these activities, the student chapter contributes to the continuous improvement of theeducational environment in engineering and functions as a fundamental channel for

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

. Page 9.883.10 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”ReferencesAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (2003). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,Effective for Evaluations During the 2003-2004 Accreditation Cycle, (www.abet.org/images/Criteria/2003-04EACCriteria.pdf).Angelides, D.C. Poulopoulos, A., Avgeris, I. and Haralampous, P. (2000). “Case Studies and InformationTechnology in Civil Engineering Learning,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice,126(3), 125-132Angelo, W.J. (2001). “Central Artery needs funding boost for changes and claims

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

new employees need to bring teamwork skills to the workplace. Although employers may be willing to provide on the job training,they expect that their new employees, at least, possess the understanding of why this skill isimportant in the organization1. As result, the corporate environment has created pressure on institutions of highereducation to prepare students to be effective team players 1,2,3. For this reason accreditationboards at the collegiate level such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC), and the Joint Commission forAccreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO), among others, are requiring highereducation institutions to introduce teamwork

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

and course contents to implement new engineering technological trends including digital systems, Computer Architecture, parallel processing, hardware description languages, VLSI, software design, digital communications, computer networks, and the Internet, virtual instrumentation, image processing and digital signal processing as well as new design methodologies and state-of-the-art design/analysis tools. 5. To provide students with the background needed to identify global, societal, legal, and other key issues in arriving at ethical decisions in professional life. 6. To ensure that students completing the program will be able to enter successfully a chosen field in the computer engineering 7

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Ray

groundwater flow, transport and remediation. She actively participates in the integration of technology-enhanced education at SIUC.Dr. John W. Nicklow is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering atSouthern Illinois University Carbondale. He is a registered Professional Engineer in two states and is aCertified Professional Hydrologist with the American Institute of Hydrology. He earned B.S. and M.S.degrees in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from ArizonaState University. Dr. Nicklow’s research and scholarly activities have been devoted to advancements in thefields of water resources systems engineering, hydrosystems modeling, and engineering education.Ms. Lilly A. Boruszkowski

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse that would both improve student satisfaction with the course and encourage more studentsto complete the first semester prior to making a decision to leave the engineering curriculum.Modifications that were selected for implementation in the fall of 2003 included: 1. Modify the motivation and student activities within the first module. 2. Utilize technology to provide the students more active mechanisms for providing feedback to the faculty and their fellow students 3. Modify the content of the lectures and the format for presenting the lectures. 4. Provide “help” sessions in the evenings to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

Session 1793 Taking Senior Design Course Projects to Market Ken Ports, Carmo D’Cruz, Muzaffar Shaikh, Carolyn Fausnaugh Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes an innovative new program that is a synergistic combination of FloridaTech’s technology commercialization-related course offerings in Engineering Management, itsSenior Design course curriculum, and its new business accelerator, Florida Tech Start. Theprogram is designed for the subset of senior design course students who desire to leverage theirdesign course experience by commercializing their innovative products and technologies andcreating start-up

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carsten Ahrens

2004 - 630 “European Civil Engineering Management (ECEM)” - Example for an Integrated International Curriculum - Prof. Dr. Carsten Ahrens Prof. Dipl. Ing. Roland Piel Department of Civil Engineering and Geoinformation Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven (FH OOW) Oldenburg, Germany e-mail: carsten.ahrens@fh-oldenburg.deSummaryThe curriculum „European Civil Engineering Management (ECEM)“ has been launched bythe first author in 1992 with four senior partners of higher education, three of them from EU-member states and one from a

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

this way, each group is “paying back” the mentoring to the next lower level. The USU student SWE section runs a mentoring program to help Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts (middle and high school girls) earn an interest patch related to science and engineering. Engineering professionals mentor the SWE engineering students and provide a panel discussion for the older scouts. Thes older Girl Scouts then join the SWE section in running a Badge-in-a-Day Engineering clinic for Junior Girl Scouts (grades 3 through 6). In this way, the elementary school girls are introduced to the fun aspects of science and technology, having a good time while sampling hands-on projects. The middle and high school girls learn about science and technology more